The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1887-10-27

and, = ths Isisnksnosr Of thas day put
II, the President of the United States IVES
NO longer. obliged 70 30 about "chafer-
tufe In the White House, but bed and
table had been prepared for the Presi-
dent.
John Quincy Adams was in washing.
ton ct the time Of his election, being Mf.
Monroe's Secretary of State. He came
to Warrington the previous October,
journeying In part with General LAfa-
yette, who was then making his famous
visit to this country. He Joined Lafa-
yette ct Frenchtown, where he was in
vited to become one of the generals party
and embark on the steamboat Trip.
President Adams was the first President
to travel on the railroads. In 1888, during
Jackson's administration, he was in .
railroad accident near Heightstown, N.
j.; where two people were killed and
sixteen severely injured. The car in
which Mr.. Adams rode was derailed by
the burning of wheel and the car follow
ing overthrown.
Andrew jackson made long journey
from his home in Tennessee after he was
elected President and before he was in
augurated down the Mississippi to New
Orleans, where, on the 8th of January,
1929, he took part in the anniversary of
the battle of New Orleans. Returning to
the Hermitage, he rode in his old-fash-
toned family coach to Washington: This
coach was his gift to his wife, Rachel,
mitage. It was as heavy and unwieldy
as the old-fashioned mail coaches hung
upon leather straps. He would never
ride in any other because it had belonged
to his wife. Twice Charles, his coach
man, allowed the horses to run
away and damage the old coach. The
President had a mild suspicion that
Charles very much wanted to smash the
old vehicle and put 1t out of the way.
Mr.. Nicholas Trist, who was General
Jackson's private secretary, once heard
the President scolding the coachman for
runaway accident. In the most mild
and reasonable tones the old man said to
the servant: "Charlie, you know how l
value that coach. This is the second
time 1t has happened, and If it ever hap
pens again win send you back to Ten
nessee, sir" The old coach made its
first appearance in Washington in 1920.
when the general expected that he
would be elected President, but John
Quincy Adams was elected instead. He
drove with four heavy bay horses, and
took month for the Journey from the
Hermitage to the Potomac.
Martin Van Buren, did little travelling,
except back and forth from Kinderhook, (,
his country-seat on the Hudson, and
way; as also did James K. Polk, who
made use of his family coach until he
reached Baltimore, and then he completed
his journey to Washington by rail.
William Henry Harrison made nota-
BILE journey coming from his home at
North Bend, O., to his Inauguration. He
set out with pair Of fine old gray horses
and his family coach, occasionally vary
ing the journ6y with Q horseback ride,
and, taking the Baltimore and Ohio road
at Wheeling, made the rest of the trip by
rail
John Tyler used to travel back and
forth from his home in Virginia tow ash
ington mainly by steamboat. Going
down the river to Norfolk, he would take
. boat up the James to Wilson's Land
ing, where his family coach met him.
He made journey to Boston in 1643,
on the occasion of the dedication of the
Bunker Hill Monument, and great honors
were paid to him in the cities along his
route. Neither Presidents Pierce nor
Buchanan made any extended tours dur.
ing their administrations.
President Lincoln made the most re-
markable journey of his life in the long,
slow trip from Springfield to Washington
in February, 1851. He came by the Michi-
gan Southern and New York Central rail.
roads, stopping at every point Of any size
here and there making speeches, and al
ways presenting himself to crafty the
popular desire to see tho new President.
He rode in one of the old fashioned cane
seated sleeping-cars, the sumptuons mod
ern palace on wheels not then being
known. When he desired to appear be-
fore the immense crowds that gathered
at the railway stations to see him hewould
step forward into the baggage car, which
made up part of his special train, and
stand at the large door in the side.
Andrew Johnson's famous "swing
around the circle" is still fresh in the
minds of most people, although he made
1t over twenty years ago. On hot Au-
gust day in 1865 he started for Chicago
to lay the cornerstone Of the Douglas
monument.
With the President were Secretary
Seward, Gideon Welles, Postmaster
General Randall, General Grant and
Admiral .Farragut. The journey was
made by way OF philadelphia, New York
and Albany, the interior cities of the
Empire State and along the Lake Shore
road.
General Grant was the greatest trav.
eler Of ell our Presidents, but he really
travelled very little while President. He
went back and forth to. Long Branch
visited Senator Conkling at Utica and
Marshall Jewell at Hartford, and made
flying visit to Chicago and Omaha
but these were very quiet journeys
Probably no man ever lived who was
seen by so many human eyes as
Grant, however, when he got out of the
White House and set of on his journey
around the world. President Hayes
was hardly installed as his successor
before he was making his preparations
He made the tour Of England, Scotland
and the continent, Egypt and the Holy
Land, then returned to Europe and went
to India, China, Japan and finally crossed
the Pacific to San Francisco. The entire
journey was an ovation. Later General
Grant visited Cuba and Mexico.
President Hayes travelled good deal
making first his trip to the Bennington
centennial and the various New England
cities. In the fall of the same year he went
to grand soldiers reunion at Marietta, O.
This was the beginning of quite notable
tour. There was reunion at Fremont